Tag management

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title: "Tag management" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["knowledge-management", "folksonomy", "taxonomy", "collaborative-software"] description: "Software feature" topic_path: "science/biology" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_management" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Software feature ::

Tag management is the ability to manage user-generated tags (also known as categories, taxonomies or folksonomies) within collaborative software. Tag management features and processes are put in place to encourage cross-user consistency, navigation efficiency and compliance with an existing taxonomy.

Tag management a priori

The tags that users will be able to use can be controlled up-hill (before they have entered the data set) by

Faceted classification, categorizing tags in facets (e.g. organization or place facet)
Predefining tags, authority lists of tags can be created and suggested to users
Restricting tag creation, allow users to create or not new tags other than predefined tags
Mandatory facets, meaning a user must categorize each item with at least a tag from this facet
Relating tags, meaning selecting a tag will also display the results of other tags related to it (e.g. synonyms or translations)

Tag management a posteriori

Tags can be gardened down-hill (after they have entered the data set) by

Renaming tags (e.g. typos)
Deleting tags
Moving tags to correct facets (e.g. an organization name)
Merging tags (e.g. single and plural words)

Examples of tag management

Content management systems: WordPress, Microsoft SharePoint{{cite web |url= https://www.cmswire.com/cms/document-management/overview-sharepoint-2010-metadata-and-taxonomy-management-006015.php |title= SharePoint 2010 metadata and taxonomy management |publisher= CMS Wire |accessdate= 2010-07-26}} Drupal,
Enterprise bookmarking tools: Jumper 2.0, Knowledge Plaza

References

"WordPress tag management". WordPress.
"Drupal Taxonomies". Drupal.

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